Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-21
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Solomon 5 Mines,

My HtdIt ID sore, ne SAID, at last. your
words split my heart in twain. What have
done 10 We, Incubu, Macumazahn, and
Bougwan that We should leave me desoIate?
e who stood by me in rebellion and in bat
Tie, VIII ye Leave me in the day OF peace and
victory? What VIII ye-wives? Choose
from out the land! A place to live in? Be
n0ld, the land is yours as far as We can see
The White mans houses? Ye Shall teach
my people how to build them. Cattle for
beef and milk? Every married man shall
DIlng ye an OK OF cow. Wild game to hunt?
Does not the elephant WJ.5 through my Tor
eStS, ana the rlVer-hOrSe sleep in the reeds?
Would we make war? My inpls (regiments)
wait your word. Ii there is anything more
that can give, that will give ye." :.
Nay, 1gnoSl, we want not these things"
answered; we would seek our own
place"
Now do perceive" said Ignosi, bitter
ly, ana with flashing eyes, that it is the
Stones mat ye love more than me, your
lrlend. 4 have the stones, now would you
go TO Natal and across the moving black
water and sell them, and be rich, as IL is the
desire OF white mans heart TO be. Cursed
Tor your sake be the stones, and cursed he
VINO seeks them. Death shall it be 10 him
who sets foot i'll the place Of Death to seek
theIn l have spoken, white men; ye can
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laid my hand upon his arm 'Ignosi," L
SAID, tell us, when thou ttldSt wander in
LdluIand, anu among tnt white men III Ma
tai, did not thine heart TIN to the land thy
mother told thee OF, thy native land, where
IhOu dldst see the light, and play when thou
vast lutte, the land where thy place WASP"
1t was even So Macumazahn."
linen thus do our hearts turn to our
land and to our own place"
Ihen came pause. When lgn0Si broke
it, it was in a different voice.
i DO perceive that thy words are, now aS
ever, wise and fun Cf reason, MacunaZahn:
that which lilies IN the ar loves not to run
Il Ong the ground; the white man loves not
to live on the level OF the black. Well, we
must go, and leave my heart sore, because
ye viii be- as dead to me, since from where
We VIII De no tIdIbgS can come to me.
but listen, anu let all tie white men
know my words. No other white man shall
cross the mountains, even il any man live TO
come so far. l will Seu no traders with taeir
guns and rum My people Shall hight wi tn
Inc spear, ami drink wafer, Ike their fore
fathers before them. l will HaYe no pray
lng-mcn TO put rear of de~J.t into men
hears, to SUI them up against the KING, and
make Il pain Tor Tie WnIGe men who follow
TO run OH. II a white man comes to my
gates 1 VIII send him back; If a nundred
come VIII push them back; IL an army
comes Will make war Oh Them with all my
Strength, and they Slall not prevail against
me. None snail ever come for the SHINING
stones; no, not IN army, for IL they come /
Will SEND Il reg inenC anu Mi up the pit, and
break down the White columns i'll the caves
and I'll them with rocks, so that none can
come even to that door OF which We speak,
anu whereof the way to move 1t is lost. But
Tor We three, InCu5u, MacumaZahn, and
BOugwan, the pain IS Always open; for be-
hold, We are dedrer to me than aught that
DTeaJneS.
And We would go Intadoos, my uncle,
anu my 1nduna, shall take thee by the hand
and quite thee, with regiment. There is
as 1 nave learned, another way across the
mountains that ne Shall show thee. Fare
WeIl. my brothers, brave white men. See
me 40 IuOre Tor have no heart u bear it.
BenO4d, 1 make Il decree, and il shall be
published from the mountains TO the noun
lainS, your ndfneS, lncuDu, MacunlaZahn,
and Bougwan, shah be as the names of dead
kings, and he who speaks them shall die.
80 shall your memory be preserved in the
lanN forever.
CYAis extraordinary and negative way of
showing intense respect is by no means UNI
known among African people, and the re-
suit is that if, as is usual the name in CUES
ton has a significance, the meaning has to
be expressed by an idiom or another word
In this way memory is preserved for gen.
eratiOns or until the new word supplants
the old one)
Go now, ere my eyes rain tears like a
wOman's. At times when we look back
the path of life, or when yc are old and
gather yourselves together TO crouch before
the ire, because the sun has no more heat,
We will think Of how we stood shoulder to
shoulder in that great battle that thy wise
words planned, Macumazahn; of how thou
vast the point OF that horn that CALLED
Iwala's flank, BOugwan; whilst th6n stood
III the ring Of the Grays, 1ncu5u, and men
went down before thine AK like corn before
q sickle; ay, and of how thou didst break
the wild Bulls CTwala's) strength, and bring
his pride to dust. Fare We well forever In
cubu Macumazahn, and BOugwan, my lords
and my friends"
lie rose, looked earnestly at us, for a few
seconds, and then threw the corner Of his
karosS over his head so as to cover his face
from u.s.
We went in silence
Next day at dawn we went to Loo, escort
ed by our old friend, lnfadooS, who was
heartbroken at our departure, and the regi-
ment of BuifaoeS. Early az the hour was
all the main street of the town was lined
with multitudeS of people, who gave us the
royal salute as we passed at the head Of the
regiment while the women blessed us as
having rid the land Of TWala, throwing
flowers before us as we went 1t really was
very affecting, and not the sort of thing one
is accustomed to meet with from natives.
One very ludicrOuS incident occurred, how
ever which | rather welcomed, as it gave
us something to laugh at.
just before we got to the confines of the
town pretty young girl, with some beauti-
full lilies in her hand, came running forward
and presented them to Good Somehow they
all seemed to like Good; l think his eye
glass and solitary whSiler gave him q ficti
tious value), and then said she had boon
to ask.
speak on.
Let my lord show his servants his beauti-
full white legs, that his servant may look at
them, and remember them all her days, and
tell OF them to her children; his servant has
travelea four days journey to see them, for
the fame Of them has gone throughout the
Iand.''
I'm be hanged if L do" said Good, ex-
ctedly.
Come come, my dear fellow" said Sir
Henry you can't refuse to oblige a lady"
u won't' said Good, obStinately; lit IS
positively indecent"
However, in the end he consented to draw
up his trousers to the knee, amidst notes of
rapturous admiration from all the women
present, especially the gratified young lady,
and in this gulSe he had TO walk till he got
clear Of the town.
Goods legs will, fear, never be So great
ly admired again. OF his melting teeth, and
even OF his transparent eye" they weared
more OF less but of his legs never.
AS we travelled, InfadooS To. Us that
there was another pass over the mountains
to the north of the one followed by Solo,
mons great road, or rather that there was a
place Where IL was possible 10 climb down
the wall of the cliff that separated Kukua-
naland from the DESERT and WAS broken by
NFsr l